I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
AGNES REPPLIERit is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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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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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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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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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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