Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERIt has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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