The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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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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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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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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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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