It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
AGNES REPPLIERFor 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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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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