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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Incomprehensive Joke Nothing 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
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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Add Age Confused Fact Nothing Reached Statement Undecorated Year
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Accepted Closely Often Phrases Speech Substitute
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Appreciation Dream Everybody Naturally Sentimental Thinking Universal Word
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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Achievement Ideal Possiblities Realities Reality Sorry
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Biblical Gray Old Ought Outlook Seventy Sunshine Uncompromising Weighted Year
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Bear Dea Grief Live Trouble
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Buoyant Collapsing Satisfaction Self Sunshine Trick Ugly
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Dear Direction Heart One Petty Practical Scrimp
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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Comfortable Deepest Envy Good Incite Period Purpose Universal Work
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Cat Languid Length Sky Sleep Stretch Sweetly
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Captured Hundred Letter Octopus scape Writer Years
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

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