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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

Agnes Repplier

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
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
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Envy Limit Natural Spurred Success Way Wish
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Irritation Join Laugh Laughing Secret
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Country Encourage Giving Mediocre Mediocrity Name Neighbour Often Seldom
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Anything Catchword Faith Necessity People Pin Understanding
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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Anticipate Eventual Great Law Moral Optimism Triumph
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Historian Passion Political Rare Sting Wasp
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Civilized Consideration Giving Incapable Kindness Offence Quality Unnecessary
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Annual Delight Guest Leisure Solace
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Animal Defender Dog Faithful Friend Heart Leader Life Partner
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Critic Essential Generosity Labour Reader Woman
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
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
The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Charming Impression Tenacity Youth

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