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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women
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
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Enough First Friend Friendship Palatable Truth
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Contemplate Contemplative Country Desire English French Important Mind Movement Travel
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Appreciation Dream Everybody Naturally Sentimental Thinking Universal Word
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Dear Direction Heart One Petty Practical Scrimp
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Admire Animal Colossal Dog Friendship Homage Meanest Uncritical
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
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
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Cat Indifference Men Revolt Vanity
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Country Disliked English Permit Thinking Trail
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
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Frightful Goodness Law Masterpiece Men Pressure REquired Strong

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