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It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

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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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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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Friendship takes time.

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If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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

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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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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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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

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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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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

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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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