There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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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 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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Friendship takes time.
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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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