The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
AGNES REPPLIERLaughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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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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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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