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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Liberal
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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