The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Agnes Repplier
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
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