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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Far Heart Laughter Lawless Natural Purifying Spring
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Candor Disruptive Force Malady Peace Ubuntu World
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Cat Languid Length Sky Sleep Stretch Sweetly
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
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
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Age Always Ascertained Every Men Thinking
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Anything Catchword Faith Necessity People Pin Understanding
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Desire Escaped Hand Man Pursuit Recognize
Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Art Doe Fact Grapple Helpless Outright Sermon Theories
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Envy Limit Natural Spurred Success Way Wish
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Boredom Impulse Music Otherwise People Stange
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Custom Pledge Universality Worth
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Attitude Conversation Positive Sarcastic Self Wearing
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women
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

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