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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

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

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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

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Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

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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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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

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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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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 gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

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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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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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

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

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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

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