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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier
Age: 92 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 1
Died: 1950
Died: December 15
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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 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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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