Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
AGNES REPPLIERThose persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Friendship takes time.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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