Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
AGNES REPPLIERSensuality, 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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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