• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

    Agnes Repplier: Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
    Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin