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.
AGNES REPPLIERScience may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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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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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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