The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
- Agnes Repplier
World, Rights, Should, Mirth
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
- Agnes Repplier
Humor, Nothing, Gods, Earthly
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
- Agnes Repplier
Been, About, Adam, Eve
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, Learn, Elation, Currents
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
- Agnes Repplier
Humor, Insight, Brings, Tolerance
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
Pleasure, His, Lives, Constructs
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
- Agnes Repplier
Pet, Like, Before, Stopping
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
- Agnes Repplier
Always, Which, We Cannot, Laugh
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
- Agnes Repplier
World, Rule, Console, Sustain
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, Been, Which, Suggestive
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
- Agnes Repplier
Nature, Part, Springs, Lawless
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- Agnes Repplier
Absurdity, Very, Cannot, Palpable
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
Pet, Give, Lover, Banish
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
- Agnes Repplier
Other, May, Would, Tourist
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
- Agnes Repplier
Education, Mind, Withhold, Receptive
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Agnes Repplier
Happiness, Possible, Find, Easy
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
- Agnes Repplier
Tools, Dangerous, Things, Handle
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
- Agnes Repplier
Possibilities, Ideals, Sorry
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
- Agnes Repplier
Past, Die, Common, Diseases
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
- Agnes Repplier
Truth, Few, Objectionable, Naked
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier
Love, Relationship, Never, We Cannot
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