Wit is a thing capable of proof.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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People 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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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