People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
AGNES REPPLIEREvery 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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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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