The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
AGNES REPPLIER
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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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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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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