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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.

Agnes Repplier

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Far Heart Laughter Lawless Natural Purifying Spring
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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End Grow Increasing Pleasure Sordid Stronger Vice Year Yield
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Civilization Luxury Spring Suggestive Thousand
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Failure Judgement Less May Measure
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
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Construction Deal Evoking Example Ingenuity Undesirable Years
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Alert Banish Cat Discriminating Enough Friend Gentle Giving Hunger Impossible Lover Pet
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
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
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Event Humor Insight Ironic Tolerance
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
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Come Contact Conversation Current Elation Enrich Learn Tingling Women
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
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Capable Proof Thing
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Book Giving More Natural Principle Publication Unreadable

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