Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
AGNES REPPLIERThere are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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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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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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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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