Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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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 thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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 cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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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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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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