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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves 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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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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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 vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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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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