History is not written in the interests of morality.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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