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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

Agnes Repplier

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Failure Judgement Less May Measure
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
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Attention Hardly Life Press Step Way
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Beauty Grace Happiness Ignore Joy Life Saving
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Draught Kindness Milk Unpalatable
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
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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Adult Boisterous Cat Children Exert Liking Scant Society
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Bargaining Ennobling Essential Process Shopping World
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Country Giving Language Like Million Probably Term Thinking Thousand Vocable
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
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
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
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Cinema Movie Puzzle Rather Taken Thing
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

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