real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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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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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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