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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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

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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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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

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

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

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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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

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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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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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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

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

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