In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERWoman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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 takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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whereas 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.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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