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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

Agnes Repplier

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
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 necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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Burden Grievous Hand Knowing Knowledge Little
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Begging Church Complicated Confronted Demand Sides System
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Harden Heart Humor Sanity
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Construction Deal Evoking Example Ingenuity Undesirable Years
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Bad Enough Taste Unpardonable
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
real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Founded Humanity Letter Old Real Writing
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Critic Essential Generosity Labour Reader Woman
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
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale
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
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
Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Know Necessity Sunday

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

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