It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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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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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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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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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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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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