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Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: April 1, 1855 Date of Death: November 15, 1950 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Agnes Repplier Related Authors: Napoleon Hill Dale Carnegie Oliver Wendell Holmes Robert A. Heinlein H. L. Mencken Anne Morrow Lindbergh Denis Waitley Eric Hoffer Rick Warren |
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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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Agnes Repplier Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. Agnes Repplier Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. Agnes Repplier Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. Agnes Repplier Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Agnes Repplier Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Agnes Repplier It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. Agnes Repplier It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplier 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. Agnes Repplier It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. Agnes Repplier It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier 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. Agnes Repplier Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. Agnes Repplier People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. Agnes Repplier The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Agnes Repplier The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. Agnes Repplier The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. Agnes Repplier There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier |
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