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.
AGNES REPPLIERIt has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without 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 labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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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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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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