The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
AGNES REPPLIERwhereas 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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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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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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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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