The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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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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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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