The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
AGNES REPPLIERA puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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 party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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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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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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