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!
AGNES REPPLIERA 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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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 because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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