A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
AGNES REPPLIERI am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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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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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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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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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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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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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