fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIERWho that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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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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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Philadelphians 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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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