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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Spring

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

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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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  Women, Elation, Currents

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

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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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• 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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• 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 pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

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  Views, Doe, Indifference

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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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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  People, Black, Criticism

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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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 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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• 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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  Lying, Book, Looks

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• If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

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  Strong, Giving, Tides

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

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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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• Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

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  Loyalty, Passionate Desire, Belief

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

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• History is not written in the interests of morality.

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  History, Morality, Interest

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• Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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  Guests, Leisure, Delight

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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  Laughter, Spring, Heart

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

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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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• Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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  Years, Yield, Stronger

  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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