No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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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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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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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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