When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERNext to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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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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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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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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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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 universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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