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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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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Leisure
Enjoyment
Pleasure
Lives
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Men

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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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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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