It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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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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 soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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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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