The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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