This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into … - Agnes Repplier

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As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but you transmit an awareness level.

Agnes Repplier

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

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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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