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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little God of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home (Agnes Repplier 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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
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 (Agnes Repplier Quotes)
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation (Agnes Repplier Quotes)