The Caracal lies on a shelf in its den in the Zoological Gardens quietly licking its fur. I go up and stand near it. It makes a fa
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Where wit is a form of criticism or mockery, humor includes an element of self-criticism or self-mockery; where wit tends to procl
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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there befo
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We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are disting
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What a fine communication from age to age, of the fairest and noblest thoughts, the aspirations of ancient men, even such as were
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See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my townsmen say, "I should like to have them order me out to help
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Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well
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All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the
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I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--
"We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
Than we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
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