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.
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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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 human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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