This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
AGNES REPPLIERWe 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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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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