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.
AGNES REPPLIERLove is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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