Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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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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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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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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