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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.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Few Naked Nudity Objectionable Truth
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Delusion Foolish Past Present Sane Subtle
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Education Force Impossible Inspirational Inspiring Mind Unreasoning Upon
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
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Funny Hopeful Inspirational System Travel
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Distort Earthly Funny Humor Pedestal Women
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Appreciate Discrimination Enjoy Equal Frightful Literature Masterpiece Read Something
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Failure Judgement Less May Measure
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Brag Cities Content Country Lover Most Part Uplifting
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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Absurdity Apprehension Elude Foundation Giving Largely Pleasure Reason
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Domesticity Heart Heartstone Home House Presence
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
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Event Humor Insight Ironic Tolerance
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
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

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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