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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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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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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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