The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
AGNES REPPLIERThere 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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If 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.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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