Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
AGNES REPPLIERWe know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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