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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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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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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.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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