Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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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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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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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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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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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.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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