fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
AGNES REPPLIERWhat strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Friendship takes time.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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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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