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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

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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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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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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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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