The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
AGNES REPPLIERAn appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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 human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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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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