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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

Agnes Repplier

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
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
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Annual Delight Guest Leisure Solace
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
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Busy Everybody Learn Learning Teaching Time
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Backward Complacency Illusion Look Process Reality Relatives
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
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
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
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Day Delight Diaries Happy Journal Men Wrote
The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Book Dividing Geat Line Made Trying
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
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Anything Catchword Faith Necessity People Pin Understanding
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Always More Popular Travel Traveler
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Being Given Human Life Pleasure Recollection Sweeten
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Education Language Liberal

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