In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
AGNES REPPLIERWhere there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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