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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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

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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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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

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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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Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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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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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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

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

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