When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERthe labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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