The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
AGNES REPPLIERIt was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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