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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Agnes Repplier

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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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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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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