The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
AGNES REPPLIEROur dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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For 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.
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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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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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