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What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Vocabulary, Age, Next
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life, Age, Coins
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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
Book, Age, Half
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Men, Age, Century
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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