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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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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It 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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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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