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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Unpardonable
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Wit is artificial humor is natural. Wit is accidental humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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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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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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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