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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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Wit is artificial humor is natural. Wit is accidental humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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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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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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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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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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