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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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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
Charming
Leisure
Letters
Path
Literature
Form
Cultivated
People
Occasional
Retreat

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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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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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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.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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Wit is artificial humor is natural. Wit is accidental humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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