This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
AGNES REPPLIERNext to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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