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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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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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the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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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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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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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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