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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Pennsylvania
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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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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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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