History is not written in the interests of morality.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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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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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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