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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

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

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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 dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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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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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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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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

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