People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
AGNES REPPLIERThe audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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