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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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

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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

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

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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

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Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

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

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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

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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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

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