The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
AGNES REPPLIERMiserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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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.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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