The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIERSleep 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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Friendship takes time.
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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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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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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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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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