The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
AGNES REPPLIERWe know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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