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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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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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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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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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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