Necessity knows no Sunday.
AGNES REPPLIERNo 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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Friendship takes time.
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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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