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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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