Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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