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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplier



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Author Profession: Writer
Nationality: American
Born: April 1, 1855
Died: November 15, 1950

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Agnes Repplier

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

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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Words
Absurdity, Cannot, Civilization, Much, Palpable, Recognize, Very, Way
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Absurdity, Cannot, Civilization, Much, Palpable, Recognize, Very, Way
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