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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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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 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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Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

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

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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

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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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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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

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