An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
AGNES REPPLIERWe may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Friendship takes time.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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