Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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What 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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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