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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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

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

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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

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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

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

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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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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

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

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

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

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