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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

Agnes Repplier

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
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Know Necessity Sunday
Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Art Doe Fact Grapple Helpless Outright Sermon Theories
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Age Middle Pain Plodded Regret Shoulder Vanished Year
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Acted Again Comedy Indeed Shifting Thinking Women
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Appetite Black Criticism Expected Fed People Sugared
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
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
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 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
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Dog Lamentable m Mistress Pampered Real Suffer Suffering
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Civilized Consideration Giving Incapable Kindness Offence Quality Unnecessary
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
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

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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