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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 softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

Agnes Repplier

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Far Heart Laughter Lawless Natural Purifying Spring
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Difficult France Habit Mind Preachment Unfavurable
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Anybody Laugh Laughing Love Really Said Wisely
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Custom Pledge Universality Worth
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Few Naked Nudity Objectionable Truth
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Appreciate Discrimination Enjoy Equal Frightful Literature Masterpiece Read Something
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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No Temptation Virtue
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Fancy Monotonous Phrase Phrases Virtue Weirsome
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Generosity Man Quintessence Woman Writing
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Charming Commented Enthusiasm Met Quality Simplicity Until
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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Abundant Asperity Edge Fusion Gayety Giving Jest Rough Sympathy Unracked
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Attitude Conversation Positive Sarcastic Self Wearing
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
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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Comfortable Fall Life Modern Publication Stress
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Child Children Thinking Travel

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 softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

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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 softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

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