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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

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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 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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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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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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