Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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We 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.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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It 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.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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