Humor is a delicate shrub, with the passing hectic flush of… - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Humor is a delicate shrub, with the passing hectic flush of its time. The current-topic variety is especially subject to early frosts, as is also the dialectic species.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was a poet and novelist born in Portsmouth, USA.

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Alternative Names: Thomas B. Aldrich • Thomas Aldrich

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The ability to secure your own way and yet impress others with the idea that they are having their own way is rare among men; in women it is as common as eyebrows.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs—putting in his oar, so to speak—with some pat word or sentence.

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise
And shows you laughing lips and rougish eyes.
But when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears,
'Tis ten to one you find the girl in tears.

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