What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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