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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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 English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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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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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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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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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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