Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
AGNES REPPLIERIf 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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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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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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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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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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