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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

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

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

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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

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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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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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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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

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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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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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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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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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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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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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