He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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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 is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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