Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
AGNES REPPLIERArt… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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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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