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.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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