The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
AGNES REPPLIERThe pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
AGNES REPPLIERFor my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
AGNES REPPLIERWe may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
AGNES REPPLIERthe 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 REPPLIERWhat 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!
AGNES REPPLIERIt is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
AGNES REPPLIERBelievers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
AGNES REPPLIERThe clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIEROur dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
AGNES REPPLIERA 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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