A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
AGNES REPPLIERNeed drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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