For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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