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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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