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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.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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