The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
AGNES REPPLIERLovers 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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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