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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Friendship takes time.
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