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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 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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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

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The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

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Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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