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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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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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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.
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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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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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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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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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