Agnes Repplier - People Quotes

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity.... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

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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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