Agnes Repplier Quotes, Years Quotes, Example Quotes

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

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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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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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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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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

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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.

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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

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

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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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A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

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

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abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

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