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.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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