Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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whereas 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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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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 with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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