There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
AGNES REPPLIERThe human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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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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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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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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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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