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.
AGNES REPPLIERLovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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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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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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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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