English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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