~ Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it. ~  ~ Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ~ ~ The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
~ ~ "Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.
~ ~ To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. ~ ~ [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ~ ~ Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. ~ ~ It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. ~ ~ Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain ~ ~ I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices ~ ~ The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ~ ~ New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and
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