Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
AGNES REPPLIERConversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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