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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

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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.

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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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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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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

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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.

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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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