Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor brings insight and tolerance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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 dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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