We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERMiserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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