For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
AGNES REPPLIERIf history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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