Best Quotes by Agnes Repplier (Top 10)
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.
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America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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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.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join."
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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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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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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