People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERWhen the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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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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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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