The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
AGNES REPPLIERA puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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