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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Civilization Country Cricket Enjoyment Largely Rest Sport Tea
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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End Grow Increasing Pleasure Sordid Stronger Vice Year Yield
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Custom Pledge Universality Worth
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
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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Add Age Confused Fact Nothing Reached Statement Undecorated Year
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Absurdity Civilization Palpable People Way
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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Forbid Impossibility Law Meditating Nature Soberly Tolerance Travel
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Backward Complacency Illusion Look Process Reality Relatives
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Course Half Itself Responsibility Smiling Unmistakable Vice
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Beauty Grace Happiness Ignore Joy Life Saving
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Bad Enough Taste Unpardonable
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Enough First Friend Friendship Palatable Truth
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Age Always Ascertained Every Men Thinking
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale

The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

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