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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplier

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Guardian Mirth Right Thinker World
whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Cat Distance Dog Intelligent Seek Strive Thought Translate
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Cat Languid Length Sky Sleep Stretch Sweetly
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Characteristics Fairness Group Individual Play
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
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Accurately Cat Dog Expresses Mater Men Mutual Relation Sense Tem Word
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Common Interest Mutability Nation Relation
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
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Committed Illuminating Innovation Thing
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Boredom Impulse Music Otherwise People Stange
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Fancy Monotonous Phrase Phrases Virtue Weirsome
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Analysis Choice Enjoyed Enthusiasm Essential Support Topic
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Hand Peace Struggle Tethered Ubuntu
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
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
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Draught Kindness Milk Unpalatable

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