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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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