Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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