A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
AGNES REPPLIER
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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