A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
More Quotes from Thomas Bailey Aldrich:
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 Bailey Aldrich
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak - little thought we pay.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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