Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Everybody Learn
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Largely Rest Sport
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Novelist Teach
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Discrimination Enjoy Equal Frightful Masterpiece Read Something
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Few Nudity Objectionable
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Ordered Reticence Sobriety Vanished Year
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Contemplate Contemplative English French
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Unpardonable
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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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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Manhood
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Candor Glasses Outlook Tale Unconscious
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Departure
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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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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Happy
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 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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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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Wholesome Written
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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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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Colossal Homage Meanest Uncritical
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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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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Carefully Easy Enjoyable Fostered Schoolwork

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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