the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
AGNES REPPLIERCats, 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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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 is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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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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