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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Friendship takes time.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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