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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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 universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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There are many ways of asking a favor but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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