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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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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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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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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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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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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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