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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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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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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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