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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cat Indifference Men Revolt Vanity
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Criticism Detractor Egoist Joy Next
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
AGNES REPPLIER

Adult Boisterous Cat Children Exert Liking Scant Society
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cat Few Hate Neutral People Race
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
AGNES REPPLIER

Another Clear Conversation Humour Intelligent Metal Owe Vista
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Earliest Infancy Storytelling Voice
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
AGNES REPPLIER

Followed Insubordination Rigidly Taught Teacher Too Much
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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No Temptation Virtue
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Accidental Artificial Born Conscious Effort Fate Humor Natural
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
AGNES REPPLIER

Bear Dea Grief Live Trouble
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
AGNES REPPLIER

Course Half Itself Responsibility Smiling Unmistakable Vice
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Always More Popular Travel Traveler
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Desire Escaped Hand Man Pursuit Recognize
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Bargaining Ennobling Essential Process Shopping World
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Admire Animal Colossal Dog Friendship Homage Meanest Uncritical

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