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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Essayist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Fluid
Making
History
Thing
Crystallizes
Swiftly

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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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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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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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