Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
AGNES REPPLIERInnovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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