Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
AGNES REPPLIERLike 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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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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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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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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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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