Agnes Repplier Quotes

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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…
• Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?…
• We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances…
• The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy…
• A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of…
• There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
• Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
• 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…
• It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
• A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
• Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
• The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
• The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
• The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
• Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
• Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
• It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
• A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all,…

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