For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
AGNES REPPLIERFor my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
AGNES REPPLIERIn those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
AGNES REPPLIERA dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
AGNES REPPLIERWit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
AGNES REPPLIERWit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
AGNES REPPLIEREvery misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat 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?
AGNES REPPLIERWhile art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
AGNES REPPLIERCats, 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.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
AGNES REPPLIERWhen the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
AGNES REPPLIERThe least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
AGNES REPPLIERIn the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
AGNES REPPLIERIt is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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