Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERWe are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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