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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

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

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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

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

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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

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

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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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

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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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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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