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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

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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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

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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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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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

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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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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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Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

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

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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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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

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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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