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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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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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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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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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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