It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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