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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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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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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 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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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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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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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 who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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