The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIEREconomics and ethics have little in common.
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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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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 least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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