The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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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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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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