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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
Humor
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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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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