Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIERNo 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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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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