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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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 well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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