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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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Essayist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Humor
Events
Ironic
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Tolerance

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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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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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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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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