The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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