Necessity knows no Sunday.
AGNES REPPLIERLike simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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