In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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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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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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