It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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