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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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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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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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 cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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