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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Far Heart Laughter Lawless Natural Purifying Spring
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Feel Feeling Little Think Thinking Unwise
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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It 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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Charming Commented Enthusiasm Met Quality Simplicity Until
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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Adult Boisterous Cat Children Exert Liking Scant Society
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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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Event Humor Insight Ironic Tolerance
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Accommodate Fact History May Surprised Tramleled
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Domesticity Heart Heartstone Home House Presence
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Happiness Laughter Lawless Nature Part Spring
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Forever Misused Reputation Revenge Writer
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Deal Infinite More Quality
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Cat Few Hate Neutral People Race
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Being Given Human Life Pleasure Recollection Sweeten

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