The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
AGNES REPPLIERThe earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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