Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
AGNES REPPLIERPhiladelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Friendship takes time.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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