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I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.


Aldrich Ames

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THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing ...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The ...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH We weep when we are born, Not when we die!
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs Of ferns and ...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH They fail, and they alone, who have not striven
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rest...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very ...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over ol...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! ...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and tho...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illim...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more tha...
BESS STREETER ALDRICH So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly at...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over ol...
THOMAS B. ALDRICH True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and m...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and m...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH