In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
AGNES REPPLIERThere 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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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We 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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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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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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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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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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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