The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
AGNES REPPLIERAn historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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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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Friendship takes time.
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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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