The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople 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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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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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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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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