American - Writer | April 1, 1855 - November 15, 1950
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier
HumorNothingFalseOffOnlyGods
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
LoveRelationshipLaughNeverCannot
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.
ThoughtLearnConversationContact
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
WorldRuleSustainConsole
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
ConversationNobodyTalkDifficult
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
TeaSpringCivilizationSaidWell
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
EducationMindImpossibleForce
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
DemocracySorryPossibilitiesForever
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.
CatsPetImpossibleFriendsEnough
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