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" Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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" Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. "

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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. "

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" When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. "

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" The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys. "

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" A man is known by the company his mind keeps. "

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" Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry. "

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" To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict. "

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