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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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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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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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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

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

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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

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

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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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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

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

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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

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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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