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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.

Agnes Repplier

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
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
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
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Fancy Monotonous Phrase Phrases Virtue Weirsome
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
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Attitude Conversation Positive Sarcastic Self Wearing
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Generosity Man Quintessence Woman Writing
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Difficult France Habit Mind Preachment Unfavurable
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
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Art Democracy Instructing May Nonetheless Please Pleasure Tease
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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Backward Giving Pacidity Soon Stagnation Stron Strong Tide
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Custom Pledge Universality Worth
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
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
whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Cat Distance Dog Intelligent Seek Strive Thought Translate
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Enjoy Leisure Life Man Pleasure
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Enjoyable Induce Music People Thorough Truthful World
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
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 necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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Burden Grievous Hand Knowing Knowledge Little
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
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Criticism Detractor Egoist Joy Next
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Accepted Closely Often Phrases Speech Substitute
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Change Delight Happiest Innovation Love Mituable Person Restless
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 most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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Comfortable Deepest Envy Good Incite Period Purpose Universal Work
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Earliest Infancy Storytelling Voice

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