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" 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

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

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" Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday. "

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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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" A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. "

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" What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. "

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" 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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" Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots. "

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" The ocean moans over dead men's bones. "

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" They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. "

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

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" A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. "

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

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