The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
AGNES REPPLIERA real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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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 gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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