It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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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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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Friendship takes time.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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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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