A 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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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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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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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