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Economics and ethics have little in common.

Agnes Repplier

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
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
Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Common Economic Ethic Little
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Captured Hundred Letter Octopus scape Writer Years
real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Founded Humanity Letter Old Real Writing
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Animosity Graft Greed Incapacity Nothing Party Political
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Another Clear Conversation Humour Intelligent Metal Owe Vista
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Fluid History Making Swiftly
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Deal Infinite More Quality
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
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Absurdities Argument Batteries Crumbled Death Dust Know Laughing Laughter Monstrous Paradoxes Resisted Serious
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Animal Cat Eye Irresistible Kitten Mirth Open Wide World Wounder
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Comfortable History Hopefully Inclines Study Thinking Time

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