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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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