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Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age: 70 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 2
Died: 1907
Died: March 19
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
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A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
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My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
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The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.
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When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
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That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
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What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
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What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.
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Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.
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Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.
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O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!
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What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.
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Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.
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Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
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The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.
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It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
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