When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERThe pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Discussion 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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Friendship takes time.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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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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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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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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