A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
AGNES REPPLIERThe worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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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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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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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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