It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
AGNES REPPLIERNext to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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