The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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 not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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