A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
AGNES REPPLIERPhiladelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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 gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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