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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
Leisure
Man
Pleasure
Self
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
Civilization
Spring
Tea
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Love
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Love
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
Cats
Friends
Hunger
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
Happiness
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
Thought
Conversation
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Agnes Repplier
Nature
Laughter
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes Repplier
World
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplier
Past
Present
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
Agnes Repplier
Rights
Mirth
World
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier
May
Tourists
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier
Truth
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier
Education
Force
Mind
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
People
Civilization
Absurdity