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.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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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 pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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