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" The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. "
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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" 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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" 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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" Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below. "
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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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" In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. "
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Desire
Wings
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Bones
" 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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Child
Believe
" 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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" 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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" 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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Possible
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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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Wish
Everyone
Good
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Hard
Bear
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Heart
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