He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
AGNES REPPLIERWhere there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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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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