A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
AGNES REPPLIERThose persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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