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Agnes Repplier

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Admire Animal Colossal Dog Friendship Homage Meanest Uncritical
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
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Custom Pledge Universality Worth
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Bargaining Ennobling Essential Process Shopping World
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Candor Conscious Glasses Outlook Reading Tale Unconscious Vision
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Envy Limit Natural Spurred Success Way Wish
Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Corruption Defies Enough Hand Keep Order Outlast Sweet
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Accommodate Fact History May Surprised Tramleled
We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Enough First Friend Friendship Palatable Truth
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Belief Loyalty Passionate Desire Reverse Unbounded Unshaken
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
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
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Achievement Ideal Possiblities Realities Reality Sorry
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Child Children Thinking Travel

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