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The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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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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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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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

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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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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

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

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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

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