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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Agnes Repplier

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Forever Misused Reputation Revenge Writer
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Charming Cultivated Leisure Letter Literature People Retreat
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Accidental Artificial Born Conscious Effort Fate Humor Natural
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Common Dog Minus Pet Sense
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Generosity Man Quintessence Woman Writing
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Agitating Doe Indifference Pessimist Sedom Trouble View
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Belief Loyalty Passionate Desire Reverse Unbounded Unshaken
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Genius Love Quick Reverse Secret Seldom Soul Women
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Animal Cat Eye Irresistible Kitten Mirth Open Wide World Wounder
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
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
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
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Age Middle Pain Plodded Regret Shoulder Vanished Year
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Criticism Detractor Egoist Joy Next

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