Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
AGNES REPPLIERTo be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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