We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
AGNES REPPLIERThe soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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.
AGNES REPPLIERSensuality, 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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
AGNES REPPLIERThe universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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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.
AGNES REPPLIERA 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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
AGNES REPPLIERto be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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 REPPLIEREvery true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
AGNES REPPLIERLife is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERIn those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
AGNES REPPLIERLetter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
AGNES REPPLIERThere is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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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 REPPLIERHe 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.
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