We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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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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Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
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