Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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