A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
AGNES REPPLIERIt 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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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