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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.

Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Comedy
Century
Women
Every
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Shifting
Indeed

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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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