“Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.” MenMindInspirationHumanitySocialPleasureCommonFieldsDutyDevelopmentCivilizationActivityConversationApproachIntelligentDebtRationalEnjoymentLinksDisplayFinestAdequateExquisiteSolaceAmenities Author:Agnes Repplier
“The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelligent service; and yet life is by no means easier, but indeed hard. The demands on time, whether real or imagined, have increased in a greater ratio than the supply of facilities for answering them, and as the earth provokingly continues to revolve on its axis just as rapidly as of old, the days are never long enough for all the duties which they bring.” WayMeanLongHas BeensRealCountryHardEnoughEarthLife IsWealthGreaterDutyEasierDemandIntelligentInventionMultitudesFacilityRatiosAxes Author:Anna Brackett
“Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.” ChildrenCareAnimalDutyIntelligentEntertainingSentient Beings Author:Michael Morpurgo
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” MenFirstsDutyIntelligentDepthIntelligenceObviousThriveIntelligent Man Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940 Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940