Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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