The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
AGNES REPPLIERGuests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Philadelphians 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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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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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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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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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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