Quotes by Thomas B. 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.

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

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• Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.

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

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• The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

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

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• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• civilization
• masquerades
• subservient
• tediousness
• unwrinkled
• cheerful

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