Wit is a thing capable of proof.
AGNES REPPLIER
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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