Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
AGNES REPPLIERThe vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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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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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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