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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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abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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There are many ways of asking a favor but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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