It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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