There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
AGNES REPPLIERIn those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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