the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
AGNES REPPLIERThe party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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