Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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The 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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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