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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.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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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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