fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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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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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Laughter 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.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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