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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Critic Essential Generosity Labour Reader Woman
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Book Look Lying Offspring Possibly Print Trinket
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
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Common Dog Minus Pet Sense
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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Burden Grievous Hand Knowing Knowledge Little
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Barefoot Believe Boy Country Deal Girl Life Sentiment Vast
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Genius Love Quick Reverse Secret Seldom Soul Women
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
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Cat Kitten Mad Remarkable Rushing Stopping
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Far Heart Laughter Lawless Natural Purifying Spring
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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Domesticity Heart Heartstone Home House Presence
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Accurately Cat Dog Expresses Mater Men Mutual Relation Sense Tem Word
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Common Die Disease Little Past Post Save

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