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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Agnes Repplier

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
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
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Capable Proof Thing
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
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
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Cinema Movie Puzzle Rather Taken Thing
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Generosity Man Quintessence Woman Writing
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Historian Passion Political Rare Sting Wasp
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Harden Heart Humor Sanity
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 well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Charm Fall Ordered Reticence Sobriety Tree Vanished Year
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Belief Loyalty Passionate Desire Reverse Unbounded Unshaken
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Education Language Liberal
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Choices Demand Education Enthusiasm Habitually Profound Reverence Teacher Unassailable
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

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