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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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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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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

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

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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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 has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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