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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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