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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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