People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
AGNES REPPLIERBargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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