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Friendship takes time.
Necessity knows no Sunday.
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
Economics and ethics have little in common.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
History is not written in the interests of morality.
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.