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

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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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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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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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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

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

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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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

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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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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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