There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
AGNES REPPLIERA dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
AGNES REPPLIERAn historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
AGNES REPPLIERNo rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
AGNES REPPLIERThe age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
AGNES REPPLIERLaughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
AGNES REPPLIERFriendship takes time.
AGNES REPPLIERI do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
AGNES REPPLIERJust 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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
AGNES REPPLIERThe earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
AGNES REPPLIER