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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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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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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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There 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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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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