the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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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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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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