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" Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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" What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while. "
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Details
Stand
Life
" Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good. "
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Wish
Everyone
Good
" True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. "
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Art
True
Translation
" A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not. "
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Friendship
Simplicity
Love
" I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. "
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Detail
Desire
Wings
" The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage. "
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Experience
Good
Lie
" There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child. "
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Child
Parent
You
" Nothing except time is wasted in Italy. "
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Italy
Wasted
Time
" Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
New
Did
Never
" It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mistake
Child
Believe
" A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Outside
Nowhere
Man
" The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. "
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Who
His
Born
" The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead? "
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Liberty
Morning
Black
" Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. "
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Lamb
Skin
Which
" Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Conservatism
Values
Unconventional
" 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. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Impossible
Possible
Meaning
" 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! "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Chains
Him
Habit
" A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Marriage
May
World
" Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Long
Bird
Destiny
" To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Know
Weak
Punishment
" In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age
Hour
Spirits
" What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. "
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Other
Sympathy
Lovely
" Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally be supposed. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Connection
Honor
I Believe
" I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Born
Distance
Time
" I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Talent
Parents
Mind
" If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach, you will be especially charmed by the beauty of the streets of Portsmouth. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Chance
Beauty
You
" To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Over
Heart
Old
" I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Help
Circumstances
Doing
" When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all! "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Wants
Man
Himself
" The ocean moans over dead men's bones. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Men
Dead
Bones