The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
AGNES REPPLIERThere 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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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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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 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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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