There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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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 impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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