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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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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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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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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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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

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

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It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

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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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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

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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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