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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need there is barely enough to go round.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Friendship takes time.
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