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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Civilization Country Cricket Enjoyment Largely Rest Sport Tea
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Common Dog Minus Pet Sense
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Fluid History Making Swiftly
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
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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Characteristics Humor Obscure Point Reflecting Silent Social
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
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Forbid Impossibility Law Meditating Nature Soberly Tolerance Travel
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Achievement Ideal Possiblities Realities Reality Sorry
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
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
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Country Giving Language Like Million Probably Term Thinking Thousand Vocable
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
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
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Come Contact Conversation Current Elation Enrich Learn Tingling Women
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Hardly Idea Inspiration Inspirational Listening Men Source

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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