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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

Agnes Repplier

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Hardly Idea Inspiration Inspirational Listening Men Source
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Brother Check Children Education Erudition Female Speed Stony
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Accepted Closely Often Phrases Speech Substitute
The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Actor Appeal Audience Controlling Factor Infallible Little Theater
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Harden Heart Humor Sanity
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Add Age Confused Fact Nothing Reached Statement Undecorated Year
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Belief Feminist Man Severed Suffering
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
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
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Apart Ask Asking Favor Granting Invention Many Way
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Achievement Ideal Possiblities Realities Reality Sorry
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
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
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Few Naked Nudity Objectionable Truth
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Bear Dea Grief Live Trouble
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Enjoyable Induce Music People Thorough Truthful World

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