A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor brings insight and tolerance.
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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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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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