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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.
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