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\u201cA man is known by the company his mind keeps.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Thomas Bailey Aldrich<\/strong>, American author & editor<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaves From a Notebook\u201d (1903) Ponkapog Papers<\/em>, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 40; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0[From Aldrich\u2019s book of \u201cmiscellaneous notes and essays.\u201d The quote Aldrich is citing \u2013 \u201chigh-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy\u201d is from English poet Philip Sidney\u2019s An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy<\/em> (1581)]\n

\u201cA man is known by the company his mind keeps.<\/span> To live continually with noble books, with \u201chigh-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy,\u201d teaches the soul good manners.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source LInk” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Ponkapog Papers<\/em> (1903) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page\/40\/mode\/2up\/search\/company+his+mind<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

\u201cThe man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Thomas Bailey Aldrich<\/strong>, American author & editor<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaves From a Notebook\u201d (1903) Ponkapog Papers<\/em>, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 8; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [From Aldrich\u2019s book of \u201cmiscellaneous notes and essays\u201d] \u201cPolonius, in the play, gets killed \u2013 and not any too soon. If it only were practicable to kill him in real life! A story \u2013 to be called The Passing of Polonius \u2013 in which a king issues a decree condemning to death every long-winded, didactic person in the kingdom, irrespective of rank, and is himself instantly arrested and decapitated. The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.<\/span>\u201d (pp. 7-8)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Ponkapog Papers<\/em> (1903) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page\/8\/mode\/2up\/search\/tediousness<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1ecbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

\u201cTo keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent \u2013 that is to triumph over old age.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Thomas Bailey Aldrich<\/strong>, American author & editor<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaves From a Notebook\u201d (1903) Ponkapog Papers<\/em>, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 46; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0From Aldrich\u2019s book of \u201cmiscellaneous notes and essays\u201d] \u201cI went there rather depressed, but I returned home leavened with his good spirits, which, I think, will never desert him, here or hereafter. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent \u2013 that is to triumph over old age<\/span>.\u201d (p. 46)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e0cbc8-2554″][vc_column_tex]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Ponkapog Papers<\/em> (1903) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page\/46\/mode\/2up\/search\/unwrinkled<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

\u201cTrue art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Thomas Bailey Aldrich<\/strong>, American author & editor<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaves From a Notebook\u201d (1903) Ponkapog Papers<\/em>, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 42; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0[From Aldrich\u2019s book of \u201cmiscellaneous notes and essays\u201d] \u201cFacts are not necessarily valuable, and frequently they add nothing to fiction. The art of the realistic novelist sometimes seems akin to that of the Chinese tailor who perpetuated the old patch on the new trousers. True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation<\/span>.\u201d (p. 42)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf63cbc8-2554″][vc_column_text]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Ponkapog Papers<\/em> (1903) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page\/42\/mode\/2up\/search\/verbatim<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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