Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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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 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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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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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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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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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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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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