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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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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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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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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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

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

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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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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

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

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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

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

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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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

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