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Agnes Repplier

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Cheer Departure Good Laughter Look Memories Question
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Failure Judgement Less May Measure
Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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Abundant Asperity Edge Fusion Gayety Giving Jest Rough Sympathy Unracked
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Cat Indifference Men Revolt Vanity
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Fluid History Making Swiftly
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Behave Fiction Novelist Office Ourselves Teach
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Come Contact Conversation Current Elation Enrich Learn Tingling Women
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
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Domesticity Heart Heartstone Home House Presence
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Bad Enough Taste Unpardonable
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Choices Want Ought Ourselves Persuade Thing Trouble Wanted
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Brag Cities Content Country Lover Most Part Uplifting
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Charming Commented Enthusiasm Met Quality Simplicity Until
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Advance Change Conservatism Function Party Political Resistance
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Guardian Mirth Right Thinker World
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Adam Conversation Difficult Nobody Talk Time

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