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 REPPLIERWhere there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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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 soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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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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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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