Agnes Repplier Quotes, Cat Quotes, Rushing Quotes

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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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.

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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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