Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
AGNES REPPLIEREvery misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The 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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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