A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
AGNES REPPLIERWhile art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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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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