Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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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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