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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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

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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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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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abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

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If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

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

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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

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