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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Friendship takes time.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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