By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring
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Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds
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The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ri...
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at
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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
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Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible
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