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 REPPLIERThere is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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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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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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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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