Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
AGNES REPPLIERIt 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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