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Agnes Repplier [1855-1950] American

Rank: 103
Writer, Essayist

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist.

Humor, Pet, Happiness, Relationship

Quote	Tags	Rank
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.	Humor	101
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.	Happiness	102
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.		103
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.		104
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.		105
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.	Relationship	106
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.		107
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.	Pet	108
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.	Pet	109
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.		110
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.		111
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.		112
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.	Humor	113
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.		114
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.		115
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.		116
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.		117
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.		118
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.		119
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.		120
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.		121

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