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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Agnes Repplier

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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Book Heart Men Secret Wholesome Woman Written
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Captured Hundred Letter Octopus scape Writer Years
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Appetite Black Criticism Expected Fed People Sugared
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Buoyant Collapsing Satisfaction Self Sunshine Trick Ugly
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Busy Everybody Learn Learning Teaching Time
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Always More Popular Travel Traveler
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
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Draught Kindness Milk Unpalatable
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Day Delight Diaries Happy Journal Men Wrote
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Child Children Thinking Travel
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
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Country Encourage Giving Mediocre Mediocrity Name Neighbour Often Seldom
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
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Begging Church Complicated Confronted Demand Sides System

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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