Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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 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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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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