The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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