It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
AGNES REPPLIERA kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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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 to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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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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