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 REPPLIERLove is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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