It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
AGNES REPPLIERWhatever 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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