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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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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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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 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.
Agnes Repplier
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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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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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 earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
Agnes Repplier
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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