People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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