The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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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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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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