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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

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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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

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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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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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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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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

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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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[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

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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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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 is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

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

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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

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