The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
AGNES REPPLIERThe choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Friendship takes time.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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