Quotes with genial

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  • Brooks Atkinson The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Walter Bagehot A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Kate Millet Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Robertson Davies The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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