A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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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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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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