We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERWhatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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