People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
AGNES REPPLIERWit 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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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Every 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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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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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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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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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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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