The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
AGNES REPPLIERMen who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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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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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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