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.
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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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