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

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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

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Economics and ethics have little in common.

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Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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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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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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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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