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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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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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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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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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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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