When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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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 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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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