A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
AGNES REPPLIERFriendship takes time.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Friendship takes time.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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