A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of … - Agnes Repplier

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Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.

Agnes Repplier

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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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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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

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