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.
AGNES REPPLIERA kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Lovers 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.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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