It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
AGNES REPPLIERA world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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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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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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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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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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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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