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.
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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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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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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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