There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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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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I 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.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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