I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
AGNES REPPLIERErudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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