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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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Cat Distance Dog Intelligent Seek Strive Thought Translate
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Cat Indifference Men Revolt Vanity
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Funny Hopeful Inspirational System Travel
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Desire Escaped Hand Man Pursuit Recognize
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
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Advance Change Conservatism Function Party Political Resistance
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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Comfortable Fall Life Modern Publication Stress
real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Founded Humanity Letter Old Real Writing
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
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
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
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
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Envy Limit Natural Spurred Success Way Wish
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
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

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