Wit is a thing capable of proof.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor brings insight and tolerance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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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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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 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.
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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 audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Friendship takes time.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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