fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIERfair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIERWhile art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
AGNES REPPLIERMiserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
AGNES REPPLIERLetter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
AGNES REPPLIERFriendship takes time.
AGNES REPPLIERLife is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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 REPPLIERThere 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.
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
AGNES REPPLIEREverybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
AGNES REPPLIERWe are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERHistory is not written in the interests of morality.
AGNES REPPLIERThe essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
AGNES REPPLIERThe tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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