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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. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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