Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
AGNES REPPLIERWit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It 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.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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