When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERA puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Friendship takes time.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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