Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERResistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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