When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
AGNES REPPLIERit 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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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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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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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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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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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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