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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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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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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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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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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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