A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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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
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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Friendship takes time.
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