Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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