There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Friendship takes time.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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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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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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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