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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Agnes Repplier

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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No Temptation Virtue
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
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Genius Love Quick Reverse Secret Seldom Soul Women
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Cat Indifference Men Revolt Vanity
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Bear Dea Grief Live Trouble
The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Actor Appeal Audience Controlling Factor Infallible Little Theater
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
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Believer Doubt Healing Immunity Political Supreme
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Fancy Monotonous Phrase Phrases Virtue Weirsome
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Earliest Infancy Storytelling Voice
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
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Construction Deal Evoking Example Ingenuity Undesirable Years
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
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Hand Peace Struggle Tethered Ubuntu
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Charming Cultivated Leisure Letter Literature People Retreat

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