Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
AGNES REPPLIEREconomics and ethics have little in common.
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Laughter 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 impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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What 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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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