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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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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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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

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