It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
AGNES REPPLIERHe is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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