The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
AGNES REPPLIERTo be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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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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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 great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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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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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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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