Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations.… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
