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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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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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