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

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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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

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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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

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

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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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

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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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

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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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