Friendship takes time.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Cats, 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.
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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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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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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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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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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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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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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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