Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
AGNES REPPLIERInnovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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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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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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