Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIERThe earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Friendship takes time.
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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 universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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