It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERNext to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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 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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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