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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.

Agnes Repplier

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Hand Peace Struggle Tethered Ubuntu
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Feel Feeling Little Think Thinking Unwise
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Busy Everybody Learn Learning Teaching Time
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Committed Illuminating Innovation Thing
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
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Existence Happiness Happy Ourselves Possible Women
Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Genius Love Quick Reverse Secret Seldom Soul Women
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Fluid History Making Swiftly
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Cat Few Hate Neutral People Race
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Beauty Grace Happiness Ignore Joy Life Saving
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Backward Complacency Illusion Look Process Reality Relatives
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Choices Demand Education Enthusiasm Habitually Profound Reverence Teacher Unassailable
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Common Die Disease Little Past Post Save
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
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Book Children Helped Imagination Portion Read Really Scant Service Thinking Warm
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

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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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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