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Humor Distorts Nothing, And Only False Gods Are Laughed Off Their Pedestals. -- Agnes Repplie
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
-- Agnes Repplier
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults!
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.
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