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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

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
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
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Cat Few Hate Neutral People Race
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
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Animal Cat Eye Irresistible Kitten Mirth Open Wide World Wounder
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
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Criticism Detractor Egoist Joy Next
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Dangerous Edged Hurt Infrequently Risk Tool
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Deal Infinite More Quality
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Common Dog Minus Pet Sense
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Come Contact Conversation Current Elation Enrich Learn Tingling Women
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Acted Again Comedy Indeed Shifting Thinking Women
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
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
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Alert Banish Cat Discriminating Enough Friend Gentle Giving Hunger Impossible Lover Pet
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Attaches Believe Cause Maximum Men Personally Sanctify Writing

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