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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 most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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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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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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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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 pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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 every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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