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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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