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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

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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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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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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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