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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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The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
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The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary…
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because…
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In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell
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Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They…
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Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat…
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