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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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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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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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