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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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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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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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 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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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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