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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

Agnes Repplier

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Add Age Confused Fact Nothing Reached Statement Undecorated Year
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Cat Kitten Mad Remarkable Rushing Stopping
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Affect Depravity General Human Intelligence Lack Race
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
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Circumstance Fate Men Pain Pessimist Presume Proper Under
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Brag Cities Content Country Lover Most Part Uplifting
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
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
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
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Adam Conversation Difficult Nobody Talk Time
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Admire Animal Colossal Dog Friendship Homage Meanest Uncritical
the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Cat Housing Lost Peace Second Sound Strife Tea Transuilzing
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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Dog Lamentable m Mistress Pampered Real Suffer Suffering
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Existence Happiness Happy Ourselves Possible Women
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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Abundant Asperity Edge Fusion Gayety Giving Jest Rough Sympathy Unracked

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