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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. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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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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" True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. "

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

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

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

" Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also? "

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

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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. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

" To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old Granary Burying-Ground. You can exist, but you cannot be said to flourish. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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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! "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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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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" 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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