Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
AGNES REPPLIERLaughter 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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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