Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
AGNES REPPLIERPersonally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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