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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Charming Cultivated Leisure Letter Literature People Retreat
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Day Delight Diaries Happy Journal Men Wrote
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 tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Busy Complain Inspirational Lost Memorable Now Tourist
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Analysis Choice Enjoyed Enthusiasm Essential Support Topic
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
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Another Clear Conversation Humour Intelligent Metal Owe Vista
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
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
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Cinema Movie Puzzle Rather Taken Thing
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
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Attaches Believe Cause Maximum Men Personally Sanctify Writing
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Accurately Cat Dog Expresses Mater Men Mutual Relation Sense Tem Word
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Appetite Black Criticism Expected Fed People Sugared
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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End Grow Increasing Pleasure Sordid Stronger Vice Year Yield

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