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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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

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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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

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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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

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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

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

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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

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

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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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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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