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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Agnes Repplier

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Desire Escaped Hand Man Pursuit Recognize
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
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Bad Enough Taste Unpardonable
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Biblical Gray Old Ought Outlook Seventy Sunshine Uncompromising Weighted Year
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Enjoy Leisure Life Man Pleasure
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
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Busy Complain Inspirational Lost Memorable Now Tourist
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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Comfortable Fall Life Modern Publication Stress
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Bargaining Ennobling Essential Process Shopping World
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Advance Cat Dog Guided Heart Instinct Man Woman
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Fluid History Making Swiftly
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Beauty Grace Happiness Ignore Joy Life Saving
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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Comfortable Deepest Envy Good Incite Period Purpose Universal Work
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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No Temptation Virtue
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Behave Fiction Novelist Office Ourselves Teach
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

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