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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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Whatever has wit enough to keep it sweet defies corruption and outlasts all time but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
Agnes Repplier
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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 clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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 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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Friendship takes time.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
Agnes Repplier
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Agnes Repplier
Necessity knows no Sunday.
Agnes Repplier
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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