To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
AGNES REPPLIERA real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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