It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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• Agnes Repplier:

  There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

• Agnes Repplier:

  Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

• Agnes Repplier:

  The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

• Agnes Repplier:

  We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

• Agnes Repplier:

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

• Agnes Repplier:

  It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift con

• Agnes Repplier:

  The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

• Agnes Repplier:

  Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

• Agnes Repplier:

  Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

• Agnes Repplier:

  There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.