Economics and ethics have little in common.
AGNES REPPLIERThe choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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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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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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