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From Quotes by Agnes Repplier
- 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…
- The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
- 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; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
- Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
- Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it…
- A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
- Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
- It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
- It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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