Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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 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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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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