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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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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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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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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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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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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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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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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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