The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
AGNES REPPLIERA kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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