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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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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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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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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