To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
AGNES REPPLIEROur dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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