Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
AGNES REPPLIERSleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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Life 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.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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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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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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 in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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