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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(11 Nov 1836 - 19 Mar 1907)
American poet, novelist and editor.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (5 quotes)
A man is known by the company his mind keeps. To live continually with noble books, with “high-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy,” teaches the soul good manners.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In 'All Sorts of a Paper: Being Stray Leaves From a Note-Book', The Atlantic (1902), 90, No. 542, 735.
Neal and Pray are a pair of deacons who linger in the memory of my boyhood. The old-time sign of Ketchum & Cheetam, Brokers, in Wall Street, New York, seems almost too good to be true.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In 'All Sorts of a Paper: Being Stray Leaves From a Note-Book', The Atlantic (1902), 90, No. 542, 736.
No man has ever yet succeeded in painting an honest portrait of himself in an autobiography … It is only the diarist who accomplishes the feat of self-portraiture, and he, without any such end in view, does it unconsciously. A man cannot keep a daily record of his comings and goings and the little items that make up the sum of his life, and not inadvertently betray himself at
every turn.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In 'All Sorts of a Paper: Being Stray Leaves From a Note-Book', The Atlantic (1902), 90, No. 542, 736.
Save us from our friends—our enemies we can take care of.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In 'All Sorts of a Paper: Being Stray Leaves From a Note-Book', The Atlantic (1902), 90, No. 542, 735.
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs—putting in his oar, so to speak—with some pat word or phrase.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In 'All Sorts of a Paper: Being Stray Leaves From a Note-Book', The Atlantic (1902), 90, No. 542, 739.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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