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

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

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

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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

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

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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

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the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.

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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.

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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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

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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

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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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