Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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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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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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