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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.
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 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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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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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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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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