An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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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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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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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 cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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