There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
AGNES REPPLIERwhereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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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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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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