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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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
Delight
Ennui
Solace
Hospitality
Guests
Leisure

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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need there is barely enough to go round.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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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 tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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