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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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 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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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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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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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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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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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