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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Infinite
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Deals
Quality
Love
Wit
Qualities

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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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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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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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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Whatever has wit enough to keep it sweet defies corruption and outlasts all time but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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