It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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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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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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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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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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