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" Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Conservatism
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" The ocean moans over dead men's bones. "
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" The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years. "
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" When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all! "
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" A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! "
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" To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible. "
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" True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. "
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