Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople 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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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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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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