Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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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 delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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