A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
AGNES REPPLIER
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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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 not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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