The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
AGNES REPPLIERHistory is not written in the interests of morality.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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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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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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