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 REPPLIERThe man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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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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Friendship takes time.
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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 many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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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 least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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