But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
AGNES REPPLIERDiaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Discussion 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.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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Friendship takes time.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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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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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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