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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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