The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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!
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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