The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
AGNES REPPLIERA puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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 labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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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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