Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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