There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
AGNES REPPLIERA dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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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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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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