A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
These are some quotes by American author Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet, who lived between November 11, 1836 and March 19, 1907.
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