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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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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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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Friendship takes time.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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