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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Agnes Repplier

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
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Hand Peace Struggle Tethered Ubuntu
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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Country Disliked English Permit Thinking Trail
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Harden Heart Humor Sanity
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Backward Giving Pacidity Soon Stagnation Stron Strong Tide
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
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
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Civilization Luxury Spring Suggestive Thousand
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Attaches Believe Cause Maximum Men Personally Sanctify Writing
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Cat Circle Dwell Secret Thought
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
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Brother Check Children Education Erudition Female Speed Stony
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Dear Direction Heart One Petty Practical Scrimp
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
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
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Advance Change Conservatism Function Party Political Resistance

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

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