What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
AGNES REPPLIERA puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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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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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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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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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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