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After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich Ponkapog Papers (1903)

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

Ponkapog Papers (1903)

What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, or wingëd air.

Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Ponkapog Papers (1903)

There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

The Story of a Bad Boy (1870)

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

Ponkapog Papers (1903)

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