The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
AGNES REPPLIERScience may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The 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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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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