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 REPPLIERMen who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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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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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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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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