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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

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Friendship takes time.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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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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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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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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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

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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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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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