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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Wit is artificial humor is natural. Wit is accidental humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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