English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
AGNES REPPLIERIt 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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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