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.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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 pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Friendship takes time.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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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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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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