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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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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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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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