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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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