It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERIf history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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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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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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