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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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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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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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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

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Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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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 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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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