The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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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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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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