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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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