Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERIf we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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