The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
AGNES REPPLIERwhereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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