We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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