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“Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.”

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In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

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A catless writer is almost inconceivable.

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Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and…

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War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a…

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Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.

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The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company,…

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I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the…

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