Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
AGNES REPPLIERIt was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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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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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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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 difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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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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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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