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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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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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