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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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  Believe, Men, Grace

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

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  Friendship, Had Enough, Firsts

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• the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

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  Essentials, Critics, Reader

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

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  Asking, Favors, Way

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• fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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  Play, Groups, Fairness

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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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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  Envy, Wish, Way

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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  Men, Envy, Selfishness

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• History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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  History, May, Facts

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• There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

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  World, Jokes

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

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  Innovation, Committed, Illuminating

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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  Art, May, Pleasure

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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  Humor, Fate, Effort

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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  Cheer, Laughter, Memories

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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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  Home, Heart, House

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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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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  Uplifting, Country, Cities

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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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  Race, Intelligence, Depravity

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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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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  Pain, Fate, Men

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• Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

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  Laughter, Serious, Reason

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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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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  Hate, Cat, Race

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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  Revenge, Forever, Reputation

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• The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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  Universality, Pledge, Customs

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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  Past, Disease, Littles

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• It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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  Education, Brother, Children

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

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  Talking, People, Sacred

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”

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