He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
AGNES REPPLIERBargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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 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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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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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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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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