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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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

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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

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

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

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The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

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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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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

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It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

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