The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
From Agnes Repplier
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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