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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Common Die Disease Little Past Post Save
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Cinema Movie Puzzle Rather Taken Thing
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Country Giving Language Like Million Probably Term Thinking Thousand Vocable
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
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Brave Fate Manhood Misfortune Wise
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Cities Community Distinctive Possess Quality
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Followed Insubordination Rigidly Taught Teacher Too Much
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Dear Direction Heart One Petty Practical Scrimp
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Attitude Conversation Positive Sarcastic Self Wearing
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Hardly Idea Inspiration Inspirational Listening Men Source
History is not written in the interests of morality.
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History Interest Morality
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Buoyant Collapsing Satisfaction Self Sunshine Trick Ugly
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Captured Hundred Letter Octopus scape Writer Years
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Circumstance Fate Men Pain Pessimist Presume Proper Under
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Art Democracy Instructing May Nonetheless Please Pleasure Tease

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