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

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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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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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

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Necessity knows no Sunday.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

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

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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

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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 choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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