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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

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 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
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
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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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
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Annual Delight Guest Leisure Solace
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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