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Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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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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Whatever has wit enough to keep it sweet defies corruption and outlasts all time but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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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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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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There are many ways of asking a favor but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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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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