The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
AGNES REPPLIERSleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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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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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 kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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