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

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Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.”
“I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning.”
“I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.”

Source : "An Actor Takes His Place on a Stage of a Different Sort" by Paul Stenquist, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2010.
“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”
“Go off-road...Practice a little daring.”
“If you think we canâ€™t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will”
“A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.”
“Life is a four-letter word”

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