People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
AGNES REPPLIERThe choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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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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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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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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