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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Committed Illuminating Innovation Thing
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; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Funny Hopeful Inspirational System Travel
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
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
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Character Good Incident Novel Part Reading
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Anybody Laugh Laughing Love Really Said Wisely
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Candor Conscious Glasses Outlook Reading Tale Unconscious Vision
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Busy Everybody Learn Learning Teaching Time
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
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Book Children Helped Imagination Portion Read Really Scant Service Thinking Warm
Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Corruption Defies Enough Hand Keep Order Outlast Sweet
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
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

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