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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 nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

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

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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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the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

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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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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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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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

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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

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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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