Economics and ethics have little in common.
AGNES REPPLIERDiaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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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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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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