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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Agnes Repplier

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
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
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
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
The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Cat Circle Dwell Secret Thought
The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Charming Impression Tenacity Youth
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Earliest Infancy Storytelling Voice
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Book Look Lying Offspring Possibly Print Trinket
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Historian Passion Political Rare Sting Wasp
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Anybody Laugh Laughing Love Really Said Wisely
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Happiness Laughter Lawless Nature Part Spring
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Civilization Luxury Spring Suggestive Thousand
The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Book Dividing Geat Line Made Trying
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
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Belief Loyalty Passionate Desire Reverse Unbounded Unshaken
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

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