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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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