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 REPPLIERIt is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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.
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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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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