Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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