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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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