Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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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 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.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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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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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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