We 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 REPPLIERThe impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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Cats, 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.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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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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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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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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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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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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