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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.

Agnes Repplier

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
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
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Event Humor Insight Ironic Tolerance
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Barefoot Believe Boy Country Deal Girl Life Sentiment Vast
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Cat Indifference Men Revolt Vanity
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
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Dangerous Edged Hurt Infrequently Risk Tool
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Historian Passion Political Rare Sting Wasp
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Appreciation Dream Everybody Naturally Sentimental Thinking Universal Word
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Forbid Impossibility Law Meditating Nature Soberly Tolerance Travel
Friendship takes time.
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Friendship Take Time
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Hand Peace Struggle Tethered Ubuntu
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Charming Commented Enthusiasm Met Quality Simplicity Until
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Boredom Impulse Music Otherwise People Stange
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women

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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