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

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

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