The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
AGNES REPPLIERDemocracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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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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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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