We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERScience may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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