A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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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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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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