Agnes Repplier - Human Quotes

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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.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

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Real letter-writing... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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Mr. Theodore Dreiser's book about himself sounds like nothing but a loud, human purr.

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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

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