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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.

Agnes Repplier

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
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Brave Fate Manhood Misfortune Wise
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
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Believe Feel FGod Good Grace Little Men Need Time
The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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Actor Appeal Audience Controlling Factor Infallible Little Theater
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Book Giving More Natural Principle Publication Unreadable
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
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
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
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Laughter Merriment Moved Occasion Other Reason Serious Seriousness
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Cities Community Distinctive Possess Quality
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Absurdity Apprehension Elude Foundation Giving Largely Pleasure Reason
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Boredom Impulse Music Otherwise People Stange
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Apart Ask Asking Favor Granting Invention Many Way
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Candor Disruptive Force Malady Peace Ubuntu World
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
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Hardly Idea Inspiration Inspirational Listening Men Source
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Height Ignoring Moral Obligation Scale
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Cinema Movie Puzzle Rather Taken Thing
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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Beauty Grace Happiness Ignore Joy Life Saving
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
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Draught Kindness Milk Unpalatable
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
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
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
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Annual Delight Guest Leisure Solace

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