The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Friendship takes time.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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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