Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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