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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. - 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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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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
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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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The ocean moans over dead men's bones. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Nothing except time is wasted in Italy. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. - 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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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A man is known by the company his mind keeps. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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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! - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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