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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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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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