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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

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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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Traveling
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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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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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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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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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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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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need there is barely enough to go round.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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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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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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 nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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