Agnes Repplier Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Tea Quotes

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

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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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Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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