It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIERNeatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Friendship takes time.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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