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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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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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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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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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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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