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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

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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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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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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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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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

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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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