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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

Agnes Repplier

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Busy Complain Inspirational Lost Memorable Now Tourist
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Art Best Compatible Humour Life Told Worst
The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Charming Impression Tenacity Youth
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
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Charming Cultivated Leisure Letter Literature People Retreat
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
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Advance Cat Dog Guided Heart Instinct Man Woman
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Frightful Goodness Law Masterpiece Men Pressure REquired Strong
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Analysis Choice Enjoyed Enthusiasm Essential Support Topic
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Incomprehensive Joke Nothing World
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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Characteristics Humor Obscure Point Reflecting Silent Social
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
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Charm Fall Ordered Reticence Sobriety Tree Vanished Year
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
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Guardian Mirth Right Thinker World

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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