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.
AGNES REPPLIERConversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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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