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.
AGNES REPPLIEROur 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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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 not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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