The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
AGNES REPPLIERNecessity knows no Sunday.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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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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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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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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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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