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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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