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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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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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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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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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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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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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 impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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