A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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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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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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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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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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