The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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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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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 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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