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

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

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

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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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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

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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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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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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

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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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