It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect. Agnes Repplier More Quotes by Agnes Repplier More Quotes From Agnes Repplier Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. Agnes Repplier dog animal friendship An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice. Agnes Repplier dream appreciation thinking Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about. Agnes Repplier adam difficult conversation Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public. Agnes Repplier charming learning knowledge Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. Agnes Repplier political healing doubt Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Agnes Repplier women humor funny There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier nudity naked truth There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Agnes Repplier fancy virtue phrases The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round. Agnes Repplier grace joy happiness The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation. Agnes Repplier support essentials choices A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. Agnes Repplier careers strong writing to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path. Agnes Repplier quality kindness giving Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity. Agnes Repplier intelligent inspiration men I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess. Agnes Repplier learning twenties personality [Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters? Agnes Repplier punctuation-marks eight two The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. Agnes Repplier inspirational funny travel Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process. Agnes Repplier shopping essentials world 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. Agnes Repplier writing men believe The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed. Agnes Repplier feminist suffering men When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador. Agnes Repplier mind desire travel
