Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
AGNES REPPLIERThe pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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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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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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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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