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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Agnes Repplier

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Funny Hopeful Inspirational System Travel
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Attaches Believe Cause Maximum Men Personally Sanctify Writing
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Believer Doubt Healing Immunity Political Supreme
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Contemplate Contemplative Country Desire English French Important Mind Movement Travel
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Deal Infinite More Quality
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Dangerous Edged Hurt Infrequently Risk Tool
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
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Harden Heart Humor Sanity
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Cat Kitten Mad Remarkable Rushing Stopping
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Enjoyable Induce Music People Thorough Truthful World
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
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Cat Indifference Men Revolt Vanity
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
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
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Behave Fiction Novelist Office Ourselves Teach
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Bear Dea Grief Live Trouble

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