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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Agnes Repplier

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
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Hardly Idea Inspiration Inspirational Listening Men Source
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Acted Again Comedy Indeed Shifting Thinking Women
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Frightful Goodness Law Masterpiece Men Pressure REquired Strong
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Attractive Bloodhound Charming Erudition Knowledge Learning Leash
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Harden Heart Humor Sanity
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Bear Dea Grief Live Trouble
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Confidence Fellow Giving Men Striving Thinking Wisdom
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Agitating Doe Indifference Pessimist Sedom Trouble View
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Fluid History Making Swiftly
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Belief Feminist Man Severed Suffering
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Beggar Begging Charity Elect Favor Forfeited
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Historian Passion Political Rare Sting Wasp
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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