Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
AGNES REPPLIERIt is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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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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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 impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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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