It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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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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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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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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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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Friendship takes time.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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