It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
AGNES REPPLIERA real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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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 not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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 earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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