Agnes Repplier Quotes, Believe Quotes, Men Quotes

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

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Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

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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 pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

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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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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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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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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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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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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

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