A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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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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