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

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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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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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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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

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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

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I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

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

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