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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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 thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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No 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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