Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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