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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

Agnes Repplier

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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Characteristics Humor Obscure Point Reflecting Silent Social
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
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Deal Infinite More Quality
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Character Good Incident Novel Part Reading
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Element Embody Essence Humor Mind Surprise Unexpected
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Bad Enough Taste Unpardonable
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Country Encourage Giving Mediocre Mediocrity Name Neighbour Often Seldom
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Custom Pledge Universality Worth
The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Book Dividing Geat Line Made Trying
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Believer Doubt Healing Immunity Political Supreme
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Education Language Liberal
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Envy Limit Natural Spurred Success Way Wish
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
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Failure Judgement Less May Measure
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Believe Feel FGod Good Grace Little Men Need Time

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