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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Annual Delight Guest Leisure Solace
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Begging Church Complicated Confronted Demand Sides System
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Committed Illuminating Innovation Thing
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
Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Advance Change Conservatism Function Party Political Resistance
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Accidental Artificial Born Conscious Effort Fate Humor Natural
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Child Children Thinking Travel
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
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Attractive Bloodhound Charming Erudition Knowledge Learning Leash
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Absurdity Civilization Palpable People Way
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Attention Hardly Life Press Step Way
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Desire Escaped Hand Man Pursuit Recognize
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Believer Doubt Healing Immunity Political Supreme
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Delusion Foolish Past Present Sane Subtle

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