People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
AGNES REPPLIERDiscussion 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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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.
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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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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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