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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich The Story of a Bad Boy (1870)

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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)

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

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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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