The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
AGNES REPPLIERThe most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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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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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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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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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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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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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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