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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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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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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 was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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