While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
AGNES REPPLIERWhile art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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 tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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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 wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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