A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
AGNES REPPLIERDiscussion 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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