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Authors
Agnes Repplier
American
Writer
About the author
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Hurt
#Tools
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Understanding
#Humor
#Irony
#Tolerance
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Possibilities
#Democracy
#Contrast
#Ideals
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Talk
#Conversation
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Remarkable
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Humor
#Gods
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#People
#Civilization
#Absurdity
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Education
#Mind
#Force
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Truth
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#May
#Tourists
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#World
#Rights
#Mirth
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Past
#Present
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#World
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Nature
#Laughter
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.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Thought
#Conversation
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Happiness
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.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Friends
#Hunger
#Cats
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Love
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Love
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Civilization
#Spring
#Tea
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier,
American
Writer
#Man
#Self
#Pleasure
#Leisure