There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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 impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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 diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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