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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Discovered Life Men Political Tell Time Unpalatable Wrong
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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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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Cities Community Distinctive Possess Quality
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Acted Again Comedy Indeed Shifting Thinking Women
Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Common Economic Ethic Little
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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