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`` I thought you had made up your mind to enter the Columbia Law School . '' `` Hardly , '' answered Doddridge , `` though I may , after all . The main point is to keep yourself in readiness for any work , and take the best thing that turns up -- like Berkeley here , '' he added , drily . Armstrong looked at his watch and remarked that it was nearly midnight . `` Boys , '' said I , `` in fifteen years from to-night let 's have a supper here and see how each man of us has worked out his theory of life , and how he likes it as far as he has got . '' `` Oh , give us twenty , '' said Doddridge , laughing , as we all arose and prepared to break up . `` No one accomplishes anything in this latitude before he is forty . ''