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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.

Agnes Repplier

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Difficult France Habit Mind Preachment Unfavurable
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
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Enjoyable Induce Music People Thorough Truthful World
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
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Admire Animal Colossal Dog Friendship Homage Meanest Uncritical
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Advance Cat Dog Guided Heart Instinct Man Woman
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Begging Church Complicated Confronted Demand Sides System
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Happiness Laughter Lawless Nature Part Spring
Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Know Necessity Sunday
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Drive Envy Fullness Men Need Selfishness
Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Art Doe Fact Grapple Helpless Outright Sermon Theories
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Candor Conscious Glasses Outlook Reading Tale Unconscious Vision
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Discovered Life Men Political Tell Time Unpalatable Wrong
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Belief Feminist Man Severed Suffering
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Common Dog Minus Pet Sense
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Choices Demand Education Enthusiasm Habitually Profound Reverence Teacher Unassailable

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