Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
AGNES REPPLIERNecessity knows no Sunday.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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