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Necessity knows no Sunday.

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
Necessity
Sunday

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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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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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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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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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