A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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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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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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