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

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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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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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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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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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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Enjoy Leisure Life Man Pleasure
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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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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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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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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