Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
AGNES REPPLIERThe perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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