It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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