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| 1. | A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. |
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| 2. | Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. |
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| 3. | 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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| 4. | Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. |
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| 5. | Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. |
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| 6. | Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. |
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| 7. | 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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| 8. | It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. |
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| 9. | It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. |
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| 10. | 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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| 11. | 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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| 12. | It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
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| 13. | 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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| 14. | Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. |
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| 15. | People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. |
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| 16. | The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. |
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| 17. | 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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| 18. | 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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| 19. | The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. |
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| 20. | The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. |
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| 21. | There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. |
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| 22. | There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join. |
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| 23. | There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. |
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| 24. | We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. |
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| 25. | We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. |
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