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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Brings Deeper Friendly Humor Insight Irony Less Tolerance Understanding

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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: About Before Chiefly Generally Gets Kitten Like Mad Nothing Remarkable Rushing Stopping Whatever

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Easy Elsewhere Find Happiness Ourselves Possible

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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

Topics: Alert Banish Cats Enough Friends Gentle Give Hunger Impossible Just Lover Make More Regard Us Who

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We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Anyone Cannot Laugh Love Never Really We Cannot Whom

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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

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Topics: About Adam Adam And Eve Because Been Between Conversation Difficult Eve Had Must Nobody Talk Times

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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.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Constructs Fabric He His Leisure Lives Man Pleasure Really Self True

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Earthly False Gods Humor Laughed Nothing Off Only

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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: About Always Cannot Irritation Join Laugh Secret We Cannot Which

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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

~Agnes Repplier

Topics: Complain He Lost May Other Them Tourist Tourists Without Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 1st, 1855

Died: November 15th, 1950

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