The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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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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