We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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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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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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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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