The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
AGNES REPPLIERFriendship takes time.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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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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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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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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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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