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Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

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abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

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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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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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