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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

Agnes Repplier

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Cheer Departure Good Laughter Look Memories Question
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
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Believe Feel FGod Good Grace Little Men Need Time
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Enjoy Leisure Life Man Pleasure
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
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
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Appreciate Discrimination Enjoy Equal Frightful Literature Masterpiece Read Something
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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Brother Check Children Education Erudition Female Speed Stony
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Domesticity Heart Heartstone Home House Presence
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Always More Popular Travel Traveler
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Deal Infinite More Quality
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
the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Cat Housing Lost Peace Second Sound Strife Tea Transuilzing
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Critic Essential Generosity Labour Reader Woman
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
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Agitating Doe Indifference Pessimist Sedom Trouble View

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