Agnes Repplier Quotes, Dog Quotes, Cat Quotes

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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

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It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

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

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

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

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Economics and ethics have little in common.

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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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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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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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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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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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