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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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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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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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