Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
AGNES REPPLIERToo 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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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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