It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
AGNES REPPLIERLetter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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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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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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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