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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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 tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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 pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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