Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
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In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the 1st place the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
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