When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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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 perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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