In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERThis is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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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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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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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