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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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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
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