Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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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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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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