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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Agnes Repplier

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Course Half Itself Responsibility Smiling Unmistakable Vice
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
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
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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End Grow Increasing Pleasure Sordid Stronger Vice Year Yield
The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Charming Impression Tenacity Youth
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Animosity Graft Greed Incapacity Nothing Party Political
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Attention Hardly Life Press Step Way
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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Change Delight Happiest Innovation Love Mituable Person Restless
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Forever Misused Reputation Revenge Writer
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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Ascertained Discreet Drinking Emptiness General Hard Lying Men
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
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
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Civilized Consideration Giving Incapable Kindness Offence Quality Unnecessary
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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Animal Defender Dog Faithful Friend Heart Leader Life Partner
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Kind People Place Relentless Sacred Scared Talking Theories
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Common Die Disease Little Past Post Save

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