It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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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Friendship takes time.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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