A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
AGNES REPPLIERwhereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Personally, 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.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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The 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.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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