• 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 B. Aldrich
  American writer, editor 1836-1907
  

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1. themselves
2. colonels
3. captains
4. reached
5. majors
6. having

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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. by : Thomas B. Aldrich

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