The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
AGNES REPPLIERFriendship takes time.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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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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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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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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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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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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