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.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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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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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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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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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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