Friendship takes time.
AGNES REPPLIERFriendship takes time.
AGNES REPPLIERTo have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
AGNES REPPLIERThe delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
AGNES REPPLIERThe carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
AGNES REPPLIERCats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
AGNES REPPLIERWe know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
AGNES REPPLIERLove is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIERScience may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
AGNES REPPLIERA dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
AGNES REPPLIERNo man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
AGNES REPPLIERfair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIERPhiladelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
AGNES REPPLIERMiserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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