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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Know Necessity Sunday
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Art Best Compatible Humour Life Told Worst
real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Founded Humanity Letter Old Real Writing
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Absurdity Apprehension Elude Foundation Giving Largely Pleasure Reason
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Civilization Luxury Spring Suggestive Thousand
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
Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Corruption Defies Enough Hand Keep Order Outlast Sweet
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Art Doe Fact Grapple Helpless Outright Sermon Theories
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Enough First Friend Friendship Palatable Truth
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Being Given Human Life Pleasure Recollection Sweeten
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Common Die Disease Little Past Post Save
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Education Force Impossible Inspirational Inspiring Mind Unreasoning Upon
The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Charming Impression Tenacity Youth
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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Book Heart Men Secret Wholesome Woman Written

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