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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Confidence Fellow Giving Men Striving Thinking Wisdom
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Candor Disruptive Force Malady Peace Ubuntu World
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
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
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Education Language Liberal
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
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Dangerous Edged Hurt Infrequently Risk Tool
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Change Delight Happiest Innovation Love Mituable Person Restless
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Art Democracy Instructing May Nonetheless Please Pleasure Tease
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
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Common Die Disease Little Past Post Save
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Believer Doubt Healing Immunity Political Supreme
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
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Kind People Place Relentless Sacred Scared Talking Theories

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