I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
AGNES REPPLIERAn appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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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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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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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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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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