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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Being Given Human Life Pleasure Recollection Sweeten
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
AGNES REPPLIER

Custom Pledge Universality Worth
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Appetite Black Criticism Expected Fed People Sugared
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Beggar Begging Charity Elect Favor Forfeited
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Civilization Country Cricket Enjoyment Largely Rest Sport Tea
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
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
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Acted Again Comedy Indeed Shifting Thinking Women
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Country Disliked English Permit Thinking Trail
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
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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Book Heart Men Secret Wholesome Woman Written
Friendship takes time.
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Friendship Take Time
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
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.
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Animosity Graft Greed Incapacity Nothing Party Political
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Followed Insubordination Rigidly Taught Teacher Too Much

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