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Walking Companions, Like Heroes, Are Difficult To Pluck Out Of The Crowd Of Acquaintances. Good Dispositions, Ready Wit, Friendly Conversation Serve Well Enough By The Fireside But They Prove Insufficient In The Field. For There You Need Transcendentalists-nothing Less; You Need Poets, Sages, Humorists And Natural Philosophers.

New Yorkers Are Inclined To Assume It Will Never Rain, And Certainly Not On New Yorkers.

The Evil That Men Do Lives On The Front Pages Of Greedy Newspapers, But The Good Is Oft Interred Apathetically Inside.

I Have No Objections To Churches So Long As They Do Not Interfere With God's Work.

The Cheese And Wine Party Has The Form Of Friendship Without The Warmth And Devotion. It Is A Device Either For Getting Rid Of Social Obligations Hurriedly En Mass, Or For Making Overtures Towards More Serious Social Relationships, As In The Etiquette Of Whoring.