Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
AGNES REPPLIEROur dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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 kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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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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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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