“ It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ”
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“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”
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“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”
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“ The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ”
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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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“ A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. ”
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“ A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. ”
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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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“ 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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“ We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. ”
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“ Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ”
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“ It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ”
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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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“ We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities. ”
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“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”
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“ The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ”
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“ It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. ”
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“ Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. ”
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“ The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ”
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“ The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ”
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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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“ What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ”
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“ It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ”
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“ Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. ”
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“ There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. ”
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“ It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ”
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“ A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. ”
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