We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
AGNES REPPLIERFriendship takes time.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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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.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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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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Diaries 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.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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