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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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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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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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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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