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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.

Agnes Repplier

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Contemplate Contemplative Country Desire English French Important Mind Movement Travel
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Absurdity Apprehension Elude Foundation Giving Largely Pleasure Reason
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Brave Fate Manhood Misfortune Wise
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Art Best Compatible Humour Life Told Worst
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Accepted Closely Often Phrases Speech Substitute
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Forever Misused Reputation Revenge Writer
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
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
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Comfortable History Hopefully Inclines Study Thinking Time
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Book Look Lying Offspring Possibly Print Trinket
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
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Annual Delight Guest Leisure Solace
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Generosity Man Quintessence Woman Writing
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Laughter Merriment Moved Occasion Other Reason Serious Seriousness

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