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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Agnes Repplier

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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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
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Cheer Departure Good Laughter Look Memories Question
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Domesticity Heart Heartstone Home House Presence
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Forever Misused Reputation Revenge Writer
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
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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
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 comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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