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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Critic Essential Generosity Labour Reader Woman
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Art Democracy Instructing May Nonetheless Please Pleasure Tease
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Apart Ask Asking Favor Granting Invention Many Way
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Forever Misused Reputation Revenge Writer
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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Burden Grievous Hand Knowing Knowledge Little
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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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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Friendship takes time.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Common Economic Ethic Little
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Funny Hopeful Inspirational System Travel
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Common Dog Minus Pet Sense

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