There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
AGNES REPPLIERThe choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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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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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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