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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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