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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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