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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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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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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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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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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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 English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
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