Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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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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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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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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