Agnes Repplier Quotes, Envy Quotes, Purpose Quotes

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

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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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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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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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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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

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

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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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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