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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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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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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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