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Agnes Repplier has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled…
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with…
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,…
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts…
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates…
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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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…
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment…
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our…
— Herbert Hoover
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and…
— Learned Hand
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance…
— Margaret Fuller
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
— Gustave Flaubert
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
— Thomas Paine
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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…
— Agnes Repplier
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The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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