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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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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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