Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Agnes Repplier's Popular Quotes

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is ex…

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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be soft…

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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee …

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

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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing d…

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