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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

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

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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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

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Friendship takes time.

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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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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 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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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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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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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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