Agnes Repplier Quotes, Dog Quotes, Heart Quotes

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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

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Economics and ethics have little in common.

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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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 their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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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 not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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