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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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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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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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