Agnes Repplier Quotes, Fall Quotes, Sobriety Quotes

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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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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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

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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 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 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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

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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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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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

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