Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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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 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 not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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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.
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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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There 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.
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