Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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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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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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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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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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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