While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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