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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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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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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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