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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Agnes Repplier

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Charming Impression Tenacity Youth
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Cheer Departure Good Laughter Look Memories Question
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Add Age Confused Fact Nothing Reached Statement Undecorated Year
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
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Beggar Begging Charity Elect Favor Forfeited
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Common Love Malady Patient Symptom
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
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
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Candor Disruptive Force Malady Peace Ubuntu World
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Fluid History Making Swiftly
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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Confidence Fellow Giving Men Striving Thinking Wisdom
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Being Given Human Life Pleasure Recollection Sweeten
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
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Country Disliked English Permit Thinking Trail
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Acted Again Comedy Indeed Shifting Thinking Women

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