Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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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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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Friendship takes time.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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