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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Agnes Repplier

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
AGNES REPPLIER

Add Age Confused Fact Nothing Reached Statement Undecorated Year
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
AGNES REPPLIER

Beauty Grace Happiness Ignore Joy Life Saving
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIER

Bring Friendly Funny Humor Patience Tolerance Understanding
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Course Half Itself Responsibility Smiling Unmistakable Vice
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Brave Fate Manhood Misfortune Wise
The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Charming Impression Tenacity Youth
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Earliest Infancy Storytelling Voice
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
AGNES REPPLIER

Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
AGNES REPPLIER

Appetite Black Criticism Expected Fed People Sugared
Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
AGNES REPPLIER

Corruption Defies Enough Hand Keep Order Outlast Sweet
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.
AGNES REPPLIER

Founded Humanity Letter Old Real Writing
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER

Clear Console Perception Sighted Sustain World
the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
AGNES REPPLIER

Cat Housing Lost Peace Second Sound Strife Tea Transuilzing
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
AGNES REPPLIER

Fancy Monotonous Phrase Phrases Virtue Weirsome
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
AGNES REPPLIER

Dangerous Edged Hurt Infrequently Risk Tool
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
AGNES REPPLIER

Custom Pledge Universality Worth

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