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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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The critical power, though on a distinctly lower level than the creative, is of inestimable help in its development.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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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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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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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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It is not an easy thing to be happy. It takes all the brains, and all the soul, and all the goodness we possess. We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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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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Subtlety being an intellectual asset, film directors rightly conceive that it would be lost upon their audiences.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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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 not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
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Born:
April 1, 1855
Died:
November 15, 1950
(aged 95)
Bio:
Agnes Repplier was an American essayist.
Known for:
Essays in miniature (1892)
In our convent days (1905)
Americans and others (1912)
Books and men (1888)
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life
man
humor
mind
wit
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years
time
friends
truth
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english
day
human
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