When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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