The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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 man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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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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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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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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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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